About THE CLUB
Echo Park Trash Club is a group of community volunteers whose mission is to help keep our neighborhood clean. Due to the sensitive and complicated issue of houselessness in Los Angeles, there is a large degree of trash buildup around encampments in our city.
There is also a large degree of neighborhood debris that is separate from encampments.
Our mission is to step in where the city of Los Angeles currently is not, and to clean our neighborhood while treating the unhoused folks living here with the respect they deserve.
Echo Park Trash Club was founded in July of 2020 by Erin Fein. Today, it is a thriving group of civic-minded individuals who love the neighborhood. It belongs to everyone who volunteers and the Echo Park community at large.
Further Questions? Visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.
Please also read our Community Agreement.
If you don’t see your question answered on the FAQ, of if you’re a member of the press, contact us directly at echoparktrashclub@gmail.com, or via Instagram @echo_park_trash_club
NEWSLETTER
NEWS STORIES / PRESS
STORIES:
Cronkite News (Arizona PBS) November 2022
Los Angeles is losing its battle with litter, and neighborhoods are stepping up
High Country News October 2022
How a Volunteer Trash Club Tackles Housing & Climate Justice
KCRW August 2022
Echo Park Trash Club Gets Rid of Litter on Streets, Mistrust
The Washington Post October 2021
Everywhere we go is trash, here’s what you can do
Los Angeles Times + Spectrum News September 2021
EPTC is helping clean up Neighborhoods
SELAH July 2021
Echo Park Trash Club Cleans up With Compassion
The Eastsider May 2021
Volunteers cleaning up in Echo Park and Silver Lake
Spectrum News March 2021
Trash Buildups Common but One Woman is Helping Clean Up
ABC 7 December 2020
Echo Park Trash Club
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Sponsors & Community Partners
Did you know you can support the Echo Park Trash Club by buying a cocktail!?
It’s true! Head on over to Thunderbolt LA on Temple St. where the great folks there have partnered with Lo-Fi Aperitifs to create a signature cocktail called the Echo Park Trash Can! And $2 of every trash can sold goes directly to Echo Park Trash Club!
It’s carbonated with hibiscus and ginger laced @lofiaperitifs . Gentian Amaro anchors this cocktail, with support from Cognac and notes of orange, cacao, and coconut. Light, complex, and crisp, this is the beverage you want to reach for after a day of beautifying the ‘hood.
Thank you Victoria from Lo-Fi for connecting us with Mike, owner of @thunderboltla who supported this effort and Jamal for crafting the delicious cocktail!
They have donated $3,000 to EPTC in sales so far! CAN you believe it? We barely CAN. Go get that Trash Can!
Photo Credit: Thunderbolt LA